X station

English

Etymology

From the initial letter X of Mexican radio stations' call signs.

Noun

X station (plural X stations)

  1. (Canada, US) A Mexican broadcast station whose signal overpowers those of stations in the United States.
    Hypernym: border blaster
    • 2004, Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, page 197:
      Not long after the feds started regulating radio, Mexico's megawatt border blasters—high-powered stations planted just south of Texas and California—started beckoning. The FCC couldn't control them […] That same year, the Mexican government revised its radio licensing law, drastically reducing the X stations' autonomy.
    • 2015, Bill C. Malone, David Stricklin, Southern Music/American Music, page 73:
      X-station broadcasts could be heard occasionally in every region of the United States and in Canada, though it is difficult to know who listened to them.
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